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<B><FONT COLOR=900000>The University of Connecticut Mentor Connection</FONT></B>

The University of Connecticut Mentor Connection provides talented high school students from New England and around the country an opportunity to work with a university faculty mentor on a research project during a 3-week program held on the Storrs campus each summer.  In July 2005 two footballers from Bridgeport Connecticut, [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Player.mxp/Connecticut/Boys_Varsity_Football_Fall_05-06/AreaID-d0527dd3-223f-4fae-bf8b-56067d4d113b/SchoolID-b9a00000-0b3d-40ce-a415-e03f3c4b3d7a/AthleteID-164d72c6-930c-427f-90c5-b7418ef91c81 Okey Gubor] and [http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Player.mxp/Connecticut/Boys_Varsity_Football_Fall_05-06/AreaID-d0527dd3-223f-4fae-bf8b-56067d4d113b/SchoolID-b9a00000-0b3d-40ce-a415-e03f3c4b3d7a/AthleteID-04b4dbdf-f527-4cfe-8fbe-1634ee547713 Kennedy Oghayore] tackled nuclear physics.  The challenge of their three-week project was to design and build an experiment to test a new kind of detector that is sensitive to very low levels of light, so dim that it comes in tiny flashes known as <i>photons</i>.  Read the [http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/~jonesrt/students/MentorConnection/2005/article.html press account] of their exploits, or see their [http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/~jonesrt/students/MentorConnection/2005/photons.ppt slide show] for more details.

provides talented high school students from New England and around the country

an opportunity to work with a university faculty mentor on a research project

during a 3-week program held on the Storrs campus each summer.  In July 2005

two footballers from Bridgeport Connecticut,

<a href="http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Player.mxp/Connecticut/Boys_Varsity_Football_Fall_05-06/AreaID-d0527dd3-223f-4fae-bf8b-56067d4d113b/SchoolID-b9a00000-0b3d-40ce-a415-e03f3c4b3d7a/AthleteID-164d72c6-930c-427f-90c5-b7418ef91c81">Okey Gubor</a>

and <a href="http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/Player.mxp/Connecticut/Boys_Varsity_Football_Fall_05-06/AreaID-d0527dd3-223f-4fae-bf8b-56067d4d113b/SchoolID-b9a00000-0b3d-40ce-a415-e03f3c4b3d7a/AthleteID-04b4dbdf-f527-4cfe-8fbe-1634ee547713">Kennedy Oghayore</a>

tackled nuclear physics.  The challenge of their three-week project was to

design and build an experiment to test a new kind of detector that is

sensitive to very low levels of light, so dim that it comes in tiny flashes

known as <i>photons</i>.  Read the

<a href="http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/~jonesrt/students/MentorConnection/2005/article.html">press account</a> of their

exploits, or see their <a href="http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/~jonesrt/students/MentorConnection/2005/photons.ppt">slide show

</a> for more details.

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